Biography:Tadayoshi Kohno

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Tadayoshi Kohno is an American professor in the fields of data and computer security. He is the Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access, and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.[1] He is also the creator of Bitcoin under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,[2][3] a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Technical Advisory Board,[4] and was an inaugural member of the Cyber Resilience Forum within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.[5]

Education and career

Kohno earned his bachelor of science degree from University of Colorado and his Ph.D. from University of California San Diego.[6]

Kohno is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering;[7] adjunct professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Information, and the School of Law; associate director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access in the Allen School; co-director of the Security & Privacy Research Lab; and co-director of the Tech Policy Lab.

Fiction work

  • "Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence," 2020.[8]
  • "Our Reality," a novella written to contribute to discussions on society, racism, and technology, 2021.[9]
  • "Off by One," column editor, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine.[10]

Awards

  • Technology Review TR-35 Award (2007)[11]
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2008)[12]
  • IEEE S&P Test of Time Award for his work initiating the modern field of medical device computer security (2019)[13][14]
  • IEEE S&P Test of Time Award for his work initiating the modern field of automotive computer security (2020)[15][16]
  • ACSAC Test of Time Award (2019)[17]
  • AAAS Golden Goose Award (2021), an award managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with bipartisan Congressional support;[18] awarded for his work establishing the modern field of automotive computer security[19][20][21]
  • Allen School ACM Teaching Award (2022)[22]

Research

  • "Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices," Tamara Denning B.S., Yoky Matsuoka Ph.D., and Tadayoshi Kohno Ph.D., Journal of Neurosurgery.[23] This work coined the term "neurosecurity."
  • "Improving the Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices," William H. Maisel, M.D., M.P.H., and Tadayoshi Kohno, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine[24]
  • "Driverless: Who Is In Control?" Science Museum in London[25]

References

  1. "Faculty Leadership | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering". https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/leadership. 
  2. https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf
  3. "Allen School professors Tadayoshi Kohno and Rajesh Rao named IEEE Fellows for pioneering new directions in computing research". https://news.cs.washington.edu/2023/01/05/allen-school-professors-tadayoshi-kohno-and-rajesh-rao-named-ieee-fellows-for-pioneering-new-directions-in-computing-research/. 
  4. "Security Expert Tadayoshi Kohno Joins EFF Advisory Board". 18 May 2020. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/security-expert-tadayoshi-khono-joins-eff-advisory-board. 
  5. https://www.nationalacademies.org/_cache_8b87/content/2015-cyberforum-annual-report-4885770000053945.pdf
  6. "Tadayoshi Kohno (aka Yoshi Kohno)". https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/. 
  7. https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty
  8. "Telling Stories | Tech Policy Lab". https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/telling-stories/. 
  9. "Q&A with Tadayoshi Kohno: In his new novella 'Our Reality,' Allen School professor invites readers to consider who benefits (And who doesn't) from technology". https://news.cs.washington.edu/2021/06/24/qa-with-tadayoshi-kohno-in-his-new-novella-our-reality-allen-school-professor-invites-readers-to-consider-who-benefits-and-who-doesnt-from-technology/. 
  10. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/sp/2022/03/09782879/1DIx1hrLr7a. 
  11. http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2007
  12. https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/annual_reports/2008_annual_report_vf.pdf
  13. "IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019". https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/awards.html. 
  14. "Groundbreaking study that served as the foundation for securing implantable medical devices earns IEEE Test of Time Award". https://news.cs.washington.edu/2019/05/23/groundbreaking-study-that-served-as-the-foundation-for-securing-implantable-medical-devices-earns-ieee-test-of-time-award/. 
  15. "IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020". https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2020/awards.html. 
  16. "UW and UCSD researchers earn Test of Time Award for driving automobile security in new directions". https://news.cs.washington.edu/2020/05/18/uw-and-ucsd-researchers-earn-test-of-time-award-for-driving-automobile-security-in-new-directions/. 
  17. "Test of Time Awards - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)". https://www.acsac.org/2019/program/test_of_time/. 
  18. "History". https://www.goldengooseaward.org/history. 
  19. "Awardees". https://www.goldengooseaward.org/awardees. 
  20. ""They were very unsure what to do with us": How Golden Goose Award-winning researchers at UW and UCSD put the brakes on automobile cybersecurity threats and transformed an industry". https://news.cs.washington.edu/2021/09/27/they-were-very-unsure-what-to-do-with-us-how-golden-goose-award-winning-researchers-at-uw-and-ucsd-put-the-brakes-on-automobile-cybersecurity-threats-and-transformed-an-industry/. 
  21. "2021: The Fast and the Curious". 22 September 2021. https://www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/fastandcurious. 
  22. "ACM Teaching Award | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering". https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/community/acm-teaching. 
  23. Denning, Tamara; Matsuoka, Yoky; Kohno, Tadayoshi (July 1, 2009). "Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices". Neurosurgical Focus 27 (1): E7. doi:10.3171/2009.4.FOCUS0985. PMID 19569895. https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/27/1/article-pE7.xml. 
  24. https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/papers/IMD/NEJM-Maisel-Kohno.pdf
  25. "In London? See our work on Adversarial Machine Learning at the Science Museum – Security and Privacy Research Lab". August 6, 2019. https://seclab.cs.washington.edu/2019/08/06/in-london-see-our-work-on-adversarial-machine-learning-at-the-science-museum/.